0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/27/2013
Mississippi State vs. No. 13 Oklahoma State Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST, ABC/ESPN2 Line: Oklahoma State -12.0 Oklahoma State has a chance to make a statement for the Big 12 when it takes on Mississippi State in Houston to start the season. Of course, it’s not like Mike Gundy’s squad is taking on a top-echelon SEC […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/26/2013
North Carolina at No. 6 South Carolina Thursday, 6:00 p.m. EST, ESPN Line: South Carolina -11.0 North Carolina has enjoyed a quiet offseason and has adjusted to second-year coach Larry Fedora. Following an 8-4 campaign, the Tar Heels return enough talent to make a run at an ACC championship. South Carolina is so close to […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/21/2013
Here’s the yawner of the day. CBS Sports will broadcast American Athletic Conference football games starting in 2014. A deal was struck with ESPN as the World Wide Leader was more than happy to dump the conference that will be lacking any real big names by then. CBS Sports did get some basketball in the […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/18/2013
When you are just plain starving to watch some college football, any highlight action from fall camp is enough to tease. Sometimes, though, you get a gem like this one from USC walk-on receiver Aaron Minor. It’s hard to believe the Trojans will need a non-scholarship receiver, but coach Lane Kiffin shouldn’t overlook Minor because […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/16/2013
The art of making accurate predictions has made a few individuals very wealthy, but it has bankrupt many more. Thankfully for the writers at Crystal Ball Run, we don’t have any real cash on the line so we can be bold (or crazy). One of our fearless leaders, Allen Kenney started us off, followed by […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/14/2013
Two-time NBA champ LeBron James has “joked” about his football skills, and was a one-time star receiver in high school. Of course, he realized his future was in basketball and got off the gridiron. But if you’ve ever wondered what LeBron may look like on a football field, well we give you Florida power forward […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/12/2013
As we get down to just a few weeks until the college football season begins, there are some highly contested position battles that need to be cleared up before the games start. Naturally, most fans focus on the quarterback battles (and it’s hard to not consider a few) but there is more than that. Here […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 8/1/2013
When you think of college football it’s just natural to think of Saturday afternoons in the fall. Hell, there’s a very popular college football blog called Every Day Should be Saturday. Thanks to ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and so on, we get college football on more days (and nights) than just Saturday. So if you want […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 7/11/2013
You can’t talk about the Men of Troy without mentioning Lane Kiffin and the doubt swirling around his future at USC. So with that as a backdrop, expectations are actually low for USC standards as the Trojans are coming off a disappointing 7-6 season — remember they were preseason No. 1 by many. This is […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 7/8/2013
With the recent announcement that NCAA Football 14 will feature full-on, beast-mode Bo Jackson, it got us thinking here at Crystal Ball Run: What other players would we like to see at their college peak? Let’s face it you aren’t looking for great linemen like Dave Rimington or a punter like Ray Guy. A few […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 7/3/2013
Your average college football fan can rattle off 10 to 20 of the top players going into almost any season. As you hear them call off this who’s who of football what you get is mostly offensive players like Johnny Manziel, Braxton Miller and Marqise Lee. Maybe you’ll get Jadeveon Clowney, but don’t expect too […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 7/2/2013
On Monday, college athletic programs across the nation swapped conferences to much jubilation. There was the ACC announcement. There was the American Conference debut. There was Conference USA additions. There was the Mountain West welcome. Then there was New Mexico State. No big announcements and little to celebrate as the Aggies will spend the 2013 […]
